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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three men at the University of Wisconsin, with tent and sign that reads "People of Madison! Vets in tent need rooms to rent". |
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| Description: | Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | H.L. Mencken sits at the breakfast table reading the newspaper and dining on toast and a goblet of beer. He autographed the photograph with "Breakfast in t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a d... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ... |
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| Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
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| Description: | Unknown group of three men looking over a pamphlet at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs". |
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| Description: | Two men playing checkers, while another reads a journal, taking a break from a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers are reading books near a tent. "TVA" [Tennessee Valley Authority] has been collaged over the image. Part of a series of Highland... |
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| Description: | Two men smoking cigars, one in the process of lighting his while reading a newspaper, possibly the "Union Farmer". |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Martin and Eva Lauffer Deutschkron in a Berlin apartment shared with his parents. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
| Date: | 01 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Autographed photograph of Chauncey "The Bear Hunter" Bottum reading a magazine called Traveler. The autograph is for Governor Goodland, and reads "B... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. In the room is a p... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Several young men, probably students, are seated side by side on a couch reading books. The caption beneath the image reads "Reading--A Good Form of Recrea... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Paul Robeson reading a copy of the leftist newspaper, the "National Guardian". |
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| Description: | A druggist sits at a desk in Havana, Cuba making notes in a ledger. Beside and behind him are bookshelves full of books and other drug related ephemera. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room with people studying at tables. |
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